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1. Who was the smart Cardinal on Louis XIII's court, who instituted many good economic reforms?

Mazarin
Augustine
Richelieu
Cardinal - the Bird

2. What was the main problem with the French economy during Louis XIII's reign?

Everyone was too lazy to work
Bad taxation system
Heavy artillery bombardment of major industries by the British RAF
Parisians smoking too much and not producing enough population

3. Which king ordered the construction of Versailles?

Richelieu
Louis XV
Louis XIV
Peter the Great

4. Who was appointed as a financial advisor to Louis XIV?

Jean Baptiste Nolbert
Jean Batiste Colbert
Jean Baptiste Olivier
Cardinal Mazarin

5. What did the French financial advisor to Louis XIV do to protect French goods from foreign competition?

Enacted embargoes on all foreign goods
Forced the French to lower the prices for their goods
Enacted protective tariffs on the foreign goods
Ordered nuclear annihilation of France's enemies

6. Where was the French government spending lots of its money in 1776?

Louis XX's court
Financing the American War
Buying up gold from India
Developing a hydrogen bomb

7. Why couldn't the French King or his ministers print any money?

They didn't have any printing presses
It was impossible due to European Community sanctions
France had no central bank or paper currency
They ran out of paper

8. Which important financial institution did Napoleon Bonaparte establish?

Bank of Lyons
Bank of France
Bank of Paris
Bank of Zimbabwe

9. Which naval battle decided that France was not going to rule the world economically?

Battle of the Marne
Battle of Borodino
Battle of Trafalgar
Battle of the Gilligan's Island

10. What was the "continental system"?

Adam Smith's plan to transform Britain into a nation of shopkeepers
Napoleon's plan to blockade all British goods in Europe
France's plan to invade Great Britain from the north
Bill Clinton's plan to assassinate Saddam Hussain